Starlight Cards & Gifts: Millionaire Mindset Trait #5: Always attend to important tasks immediately

Millionaires don’t waste time procrastinating. If the task or project is important they’ll start on it immediately, or they’ll delegate it to someone else.

If it is less important, then they delegate it, schedule it for later in their calendar, or put it in an ideas folder. That way they can forget about it and move forward with tasks and projects that are important.

A good friend of mine, Mark Joyner, who is also a New York Times best selling author, is especially good at time management. He can accomplish far more in a day than just about anyone I’ve ever known. And, he is very good at helping others learn how to do the same. He once told me that, to him, there is this “cosmic RAM” going on in our heads – when I use the word RAM I am referring to computer terminology – “random access memory”.

Let’s say for example you are working online and you have several internet applications open all at the same time – such as photo shop, web browsers, Microsoft Word, and perhaps you’ve got some video software going as well – you’ve got all these programs open and operating on your computer simultaneously.

Now you probably realize that this is going to slow down your computer significantly – it’s not going to run very fast or efficiently when you have all of these applications open. And if you continue to use your computer like that you will find that it is in constant need of repairs because it overheats – it simply can’t handle that kind of load all the time.

The same sort of thing happens in your mind. Let’s say you are thinking about the laundry, vacuuming, and housework you need to do; your kids have a birthday party they are supposed to go to on the weekend and you need to get gifts for that; plus you’ve got this website you need to set up or some part of your business you need to attend to; and on top of all of that you just bought an exciting new training course that teaches you how to do something you’ve been wanting to learn for awhile now. You’re thinking to yourself how you need to get all these things done.

Just like your computer, you’re brain is overloaded with all of these different things going on in your head at the same time. Needless to say, that affects your own internal cosmic RAM, and that’s not a good thing. Metaphorically speaking, it’s going to overheat.

What you need to learn how to do is 1) get all of the most pressing tasks done right away, 2) put them on your calendar to do at a future date – preferably an online or phone calendar so you can forget about them for now but know that you’ll be reminded about them at the right time, or 3) delegate some of the tasks to other people – particularly those that are business related. 4) For non-urgent tasks that you don’t know when you will be able to get to them, you can put in an ideas folder. Ideas folders are great – you just review the tasks in it every month to see if you have time to work on them.

In order to be efficient and productive - like with your computer – and to keep things running smoothly, you need to be able to “close off” the majority of those tasks in your mind so that you’re brain is not too cluttered with so many things going on in it. This way, when you do work on a task you can really focus your mind on it. The more focused you are, the more likely you are to do it properly and finish it more quickly than if you try to focus on too many tasks all at the same time.

Article by Mark Ling http://www.amazingself.com